Diane asked "But why the cultural fondness among our men for giving the occasional bottle? " I don't know. I've given my sons expressed milk in a bottle but didn't see anything great about it after doing it once or twice. I can never get physically comfortable while doing this. What I mostly enjoyed was when our first one was about 9 months and my wife was at work I would feed him lunch. We ate like men. That is I moved his high chair to the living room and we ate in front of the TV with the remote in hand. (We watched Quincy reruns) The dog cleaned up any evidence. -Rob Rob Cordes, DO, FAAP, FACOP general pediatrician Wilkes Barre PA mailto:[log in to unmask] *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html